Bible Verses About Forgiveness

King James Version passages about forgiveness, mercy, and a clean heart.

Colossians 1:14The Supremacy of Christ

In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

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Proverbs 20:9Purity of Heart

Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from my sin?

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1 John 1:9-10God is Light

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

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Luke 6:35-36Love for Enemies

But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

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Psalms 24:4-5The Earth Belongs to the Lord

He that hath clean hands, and a pure heart; who hath not lifted up his soul unto vanity, nor sworn deceitfully. He shall receive the blessing from the LORD, and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

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Matthew 5:43-44Love for Enemies

Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

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James 1:27Hearing and Doing the Word

Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

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Exodus 34:7The Lord's Proclamation

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children's children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

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